This is an analysis of The New Decalogue by Ambrose Bierce.
Have but one God: thy knees were sore
If bent in prayer to three or four.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff ee gg dX hh
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 11111101 01010111 01110011 01001101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110101 10110101 11110101 111100011 01000101 11110101 11010001 01010111 01010101 11110111 11111101 11010101 11010001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
thy
Anaphora
thy